Miniature Sugar

Wedgwood

  • Titles Miniature Sugar (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions 1 1/2 x 2 5/8 x 1 1/2 in. (3.8 x 6.7 x 3.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.691.2011
  • Work Type sugar
  • Classification Containers

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Round, cast-iron medallion with the portrait bust of Apostle John the Evangelist three-quarter right with his head facing front, his left arm rests on a book and in his left hand he holds a scroll, behind him on his right is a cup with a viper in it, his emblem, in memory of the challenge to him by a high priest of Diana at Ephesus to drink a poisoned cup
Creamware sweetmeat dish of a creamy yellowish color, shell-shaped with shell edge highlighted in magenta enamel, with shell scrolled handle likewise highlighted in magenta and a hand-painted magenta floral sprig in the well, resting on two stout conical feet.
One of a pair of silver, boat-shaped, covered sauceboats, each raised on stepped oval foot with beaded edge, the upper rim of the main body likewise beaded, with two large, loop handles with reeded accents, the fitted, domed cover notched to accommodate a ladle, with beaded urn finial, both the cover and the body on one side engraved with a stag crest.
Bowl, David Puxley, Wedgwood, black basalt with glazed interior